Ultra-Processed Women

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Discover the hidden impact of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) on womens health with Ultra-Processed Women.
Everyone is talking about the rapidly mounting evidence that our diet of ultra-processed food (UPF) is fundamentally damaging our health. But what barely anyone is talking about is the specific impact that this very modern way of eating could be having on the female body, and on womens health and lives. Women are so often left out of the health conversation with the male body treated as the default lets make sure this doesnt happen again as the spotlight is turned on UPF.

Ultra-Processed Women would be written in Milli Hills usual style: readable, warm, engaging, campaigning, and at times, humorous. The science would be central and well researched but ultimately this would be an expose: a book that opens womens minds to the possibility that all of the health issues they often attribute simply to being female, could potentially be improved not just by eating better, but by specifically and consciously removing UPF from their shopping trolley.

Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) are linked to, for example:
More painful and heavier periods, and worse symptoms of PMS
Increased symptoms of menopause
Unwanted weight gain and obesity
50% higher risk of depression in middle age women
Increased risk of developing and dying from female cancers
Higher risk of health problems in pregnancy
Increased risk of dementia and Alzheimers

Ultra-Processed Women is uniquely placed as the only book on the market to focus on the specific affects that UPF has on womens health, while not being a diet or weight loss book. It is readable, accessible, actionable, and based on cutting edge science, by one of the UKs most respected and outspoken health writers. Ultra-Processed Women draws on the widespread success of Chris van Tullekens Ultra-Processed People, but goes further to focus on UPFs uniquely dangerous impact on womens health, whilst similarly using science-backed evidence as the foundation of the book.

Author Bio

Milli Hill is a freelance journalist, and the founder of the Positive Birth Movement, a global network of over 450 free to attend antenatal groups - linked up by social media. She is a columnist for Telegraph Women, a regular contributor to Mother&Baby magazine, and also writes for Guardian, ipaper, GoodtoKnow, and many others. Her first book, The Positive Birth Book, has been a bestseller since publication in March 2017. Milli has become a global spokesperson for women's experience of childbirth, and is invited to speak regularly at conferences and events across the UK and beyond. She lives in Somerset with her partner and three children, aged 11, 8 and 5.